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Illustrations from the Alchemy collection.
Alchemical emblem featuring a peacock inside a crowned glass flask (hermetic vessel), set within a classical architectural frame. The surrounding landscape depicts Venus in a chariot above, and scenes of courtly love, music, and feasting below.
The Splendour of the Sun
A complex cosmological engraving titled 'Integrae Naturae speculum, Artisque imago' depicting the Great Chain of Being and the hierarchy of the universe.
The History of the Two Worlds
Portrait of Michael Maier, the author, at age 49, holding a book and standing before a draped background with his coat of arms.
Symbols of the Golden Table of the Twelve Nations
Allegorical engraving of the 'Porta Amphitheatri' (Gate of the Amphitheater), showing a rocky landscape with a cave entrance, figures, and numerous Latin inscriptions.
Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1609)
A complex allegorical landscape engraving featuring the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus inscribed on a rock face.
Ichnographia Stellaeburgi: A ground plan or floor map of the Stjerneborg observatory.
Tycho Brahe: Astronomiae Instauratae (1602)
Saturn vomiting a stone, set within a landscape with a small building and distant city.
Atalanta Fleeing
Detailed engraving of Tycho Brahe's Equatorial Armillary instrument (Armillae Aliae Aequatoriae) on a checkered floor.
A complex allegorical woodcut representing the Great Work (Magnum Opus) and the Philosopher's Stone, featuring celestial bodies, mythological creatures, and human figures supporting a cosmic sphere.
Alchemy
A detailed woodcut of Tycho Brahe's Equatorial Armillary instrument, featuring a complex series of nested rings and a decorative base with allegorical figures.
Alchemical emblem depicting a deer and a unicorn in a forest.
The Hermetic Museum (Vol. 1)
A detailed technical engraving of a water-powered clock or musical automaton featuring a carillon of bells and a numbered hexagonal tower.
A complex allegorical emblem depicting the entrance to a cave or portal of wisdom, titled 'The Gate of Amphitheatrum'. Seven rays of text (divine laws) emanate from the opening. On the right, a landscape with a town, figures, and birds. In the foreground, a figure enters the long perspective of a hall. The scene is rich with hermetic and alchemical symbolism.
A muscular, nude male figure, possibly an elemental spirit or a personification of wind, with his hair and outstretched arms transforming into swirling clouds. He stands in a landscape with a body of water and distant architecture.
Alchemical emblem from the Third Treatise of Splendor Solis, featuring two royal figures representing the Sun and Moon, or the alchemical King and Queen, standing beneath two celestial suns.
Scientific diagram of a siphon mechanism within a vessel, illustrating the principles of fluid dynamics and atmospheric pressure.
On Subtlety
An allegorical illustration depicting a large female figure, personifying Mother Earth or Nature, with a globe as her torso from which infants emerge. She is flanked by a goat suckling two infants on the left and a dog-like animal (possibly a wolf) suckling two infants on the right. The scene is set in a landscape with hills and distant buildings, and the illustration is hand-colored.
A complex allegorical landscape engraving depicting the 'Gymnasium Theo-magicum', showing mountains, a river, and various figures engaged in spiritual and alchemical pursuits under divine light.
A complex circular diagram titled 'MVNDVS ELEMENTARIS' (The Elemental World) representing the macrocosm and microcosm, featuring concentric rings of alchemical, astrological, and philosophical correspondences.
The Hermetic Museum
Elaborate architectural frontispiece for the Musaeum Hermeticum featuring alchemical personifications and mythological figures.
The 'Arma Artis' (Arms of the Art) emblem featuring a sun with a human face above a crowned crescent moon and a shield, set within an architectural space with two figures in the background.
An alchemical emblem from the 'Lambspring' series featuring a central tree with seven stars, flanked by two figures and surrounded by seven circular medallions depicting symbolic animals and scenes.
A complex alchemical engraving known as 'Figura IV' from the Musaeum Hermeticum, illustrating the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus.
A detailed architectural plan and bird's-eye view of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven.
The Seventh Key of Basil Valentine from the Musaeum Hermeticum, featuring a central circular diagram with a triangle and square, flanked by a figure holding scales and a sword.
A circular alchemical emblem depicting a sun, a jug pouring liquid into a vessel, a phoenix feeding its young with its own blood, and a husbandman sowing seeds in a field.
Alchemical Writings (Stone of Philosophers)
An emblem depicting a man fishing coral from a river, with a city in the background and a face in the clouds.
A solid black engraved rectangle representing the primeval void, framed with the Latin phrase 'Et sic in infinitum'.
Utriusque Cosmi Historia - Tomus Primus (De Macrocosmi)
The Second Key of Basil Valentine, an alchemical emblem depicting a winged Mercury figure standing between two fencers.
The Great Mural Quadrant (Quadrans Muralis) at Uraniborg, featuring a portrait of Tycho Brahe and scenes of his assistants at work.
Portrait of Tycho Brahe framed by an archway featuring sixteen coats of arms representing his noble lineage.
A complex architectural allegory of music and mathematics, featuring organ pipes, musical notation, mathematical tables, and various figures.
Complex alchemical-theological allegory featuring a multi-armed eagle-human hybrid, crowns, and biblical figures.
Book of the Holy Trinity
Architectural title page for John Dee's 'Monas Hieroglyphica' featuring the central Monas symbol.
The Hieroglyphic Monad (1564 Antwerp)
Frontispiece of Robert Fludd's 'Utriusque Cosmi Historia' featuring a cosmological diagram of the Macrocosm and Microcosm.
Title page of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica featuring a central alchemical emblem within an architectural frame.
The Hieroglyphic Monad
Complex alchemical allegory featuring a central vessel with a figure, a peacock-drawn chariot, and various surrounding scenes of coronation and study.
Splendor of the Sun
A complex cosmological diagram titled 'The True Principles of All Things,' featuring a central circular motif with alchemical and astrological symbols, surrounded by text describing the 'Abyss,' 'Nothing,' and 'All-Time.'
Works of Jacob Behmen (William Law Edition, 4 vols)
A collection of six portrait medallions of historical and legendary figures associated with occultism and inspiration, framed within a decorative border.
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
The First Key of Basilius Valentinus, depicting a king and queen, a wolf jumping over a crucible, and a skeletal figure of Saturn/Death with a scythe.
Basil Valentine: Last Will & Testament (1671)
Complex woodcut depicting Egyptian-style deities and symbols on a celestial boat.
The Egyptian Oedipus, Volume II
The Monochordum Mundanum (World Monochord) diagram illustrating the harmony of the spheres.
A technical woodcut illustration of Tycho Brahe's 'Quadrans Alius Orichalcicus etiam Azimuthalis' (Another Brass Azimuthal Quadrant), showing the instrument mounted on a stone pedestal with leveling screws and a sighting alidade.
A large circular diagram representing the Northern Hemisphere of the Zodiac according to Egyptian thought, featuring numerous mythological figures and symbols.
Nona Figura from the Lambspring series, depicting a King seated on a throne atop a dragon, overlooking a city.
A detailed engraving of a bustling 17th-century kitchen scene with multiple figures preparing food.
Della Porta Magia Naturalis (German 1713)
A large, complex engraving depicting the creation of the macrocosm, featuring a dark central void surrounded by a radiant sun-like ring, with the word 'FIAT' in a cloud at the top and a dove representing the Holy Spirit on the left.
Alchemical emblem depicting a king devouring his son, with a winged figure observing from a balcony.
An alchemical engraving featuring an athanor furnace at the top and three registers of symbolic animals below.
Woodcut illustration titled 'Turba Philosophorum' depicting a gathering of alchemists or philosophers with speech scrolls.
The Art of Gold-making
An alchemical emblem featuring a king and two attendants on a shore, watching a nude figure in the water. In the background, a dark rock is topped with a red cross and stars.
Sammlung Alchymistischer Schriften (German MS 3)
An elaborate allegorical woodcut titled 'Typus Artis Aurificae', depicting the alchemical process within a large vessel or shield-like frame.
A complex, chaotic scene depicting St. James the Elder confronting a magician and various demonic entities during a Witches' Sabbath.
An engraving depicting Edward Kelly and another man (likely John Dee) performing a necromantic ritual in a graveyard at night. They stand within a magic circle while a shrouded spirit appears before them.
A complex cosmological diagram titled 'The Constituent Parts of Man', featuring geometric shapes, circles, and text describing the spiritual states of the human mind.
Topographical map of the island of Hven (Hvenna), showing the locations of Uraniborg and Stjerneborg.
Architectural elevation (Orthographia) of Uraniborg, Tycho Brahe's observatory on the island of Hven.
A detailed engraving of Tycho Brahe's 'Globus Magnus Orichalcicus' (Great Brass Globe), showing the celestial sphere with constellations and its mechanical mounting.
An oval engraving depicting four mythological figures surrounded by a zodiac wheel.
Alchemical emblem featuring a central winged figure standing on a circular platform containing an ouroboros, flanked by two men.
The Mirror of Truth
A solid black rectangular woodcut representing primeval darkness or the void.
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The Monochordum Mundanum (Celestial Monochord) diagram showing the divine hand tuning the universe.
Hand-colored alchemical emblem showing a man with a sword and fleece next to a dismembered body.
The Golden Fleece
A three-headed bird inside a crowned alchemical vessel, representing the stages of the Great Work.
Engraved portrait of Johann Otto von Hellwig, the author, in a decorative oval frame atop a plinth with a Latin inscription.
Curious Physics
Alchemical emblem depicting the union of the Sun (King) and Moon (Queen).
Hand-colored alchemical emblem featuring a crowned figure standing on the sun and moon.
A hand-colored alchemical emblem of a two-headed winged figure.
Hand-colored alchemical emblem featuring Sol and Luna in an embrace, a large black bird, and various hermetic symbols.
An alchemical emblem depicting a man in noble attire gesturing toward a seated couple who are holding a small child between them, set against an architectural background with arches and a distant landscape.
An alchemical emblem depicting a bearded philosopher in robes pointing toward a man treading on a dunghill, with a figure falling from a tower in the background.
The Alchemical Toad and the Seven Gates of the Great Work
The Ripley Scroll
An elaborate alchemical woodcut depicting a tiered structure or 'Throne of Solomon' featuring a double-headed lion at the base, ascending lions on steps, and a King and Queen seated at the summit beneath a celestial tree.
Alchemical emblem of Hermes Trismegistus standing beside the Sun and Moon.
The opening section of the Ripley Scroll featuring Hermes Trismegistus holding an alchemical flask and a toad.
The Bird of Hermes and the Alchemical Fountain from the Ripley Scroll.
Engraved portrait of Elias Ashmole, depicted as a bust within an arched niche, positioned above a symbolic architectural structure bearing his name.
The Way to Bliss in Three Books
Plate XVIII from Splendor Solis, featuring an alchemical flask containing a crowned figure standing on a crescent moon, set within an architectural frame and surrounded by a landscape of human activity and the celestial chariot of Luna.
Anatomical engraving of a flayed male figure holding his own skin and a dagger.
Amphitheatre of Anatomy
A complex alchemical emblem from the Ripley Scroll featuring the Sun (Sol) and Moon (Luna) flanking a central vessel or fountain where figures undergo transformation, topped by a flaming furnace.
Portrait of Basilius Valentinus, a Benedictine monk and alchemist, holding a flask, with a mining scene depicted below.
The Chemical Writings
The Fifth Parable: An androgynous figure with two heads and wings, one black and one white, standing in a landscape holding a circular mirror and an egg.
The Seventh Parable from Splendor Solis, depicting an alchemist tending a fire beneath a circular bath where a man is being rejuvenated, set within a classical architectural courtyard.
A complex circular alchemical emblem featuring dense Latin text and symbolic landscape elements.
Alchemical emblem showing the Father and Son joined in one, seated with a winged figure under a canopy.
An intricate alchemical emblem featuring a central tree with seven stars, surrounded by seven circular medallions depicting various animals and birds. Two figures stand at the base of the tree, flanked by allegorical scenes involving a lion and a crescent moon.
Alchemical emblem depicting a winged woman and a naked man.
Golden Treasure Chamber
An alchemical emblem featuring a two-headed, winged figure (Rebis) in a landscape, surrounded by a floral border.
A complex cosmological diagram featuring a central globe surrounded by concentric rings of clouds, wind heads, archangels, and occult symbols.
Sacred and Truly Christian Philosophy, or Cosmic Meteorology
The Eighth Key of Basil Valentine, an allegorical scene depicting sowing, death, and resurrection.
A complex alchemical emblem featuring a central bearded face within a seven-pointed star, surrounded by symbolic figures and the Latin motto for VITRIOL.
Portrait of Robert Fludd with coat of arms and divine light
Two large birds, representing Body and Spirit, devouring each other in a wooded landscape.
An allegorical emblem showing three figures—an old king, a younger king, and a winged guide—holding hands in a landscape.
Elaborate allegorical frontispiece featuring Egyptian and Greek mythological figures and symbols framing the title text.
The Most Secret Secrets
Anatomical woodcut of a human figure showing the venous system.
A large black square representing the primordial void, with a central circular burst of light or energy radiating outwards.
Engraved portrait of David de Planis Campy within an architectural frame, featuring alchemical apparatus and a symbolic book.
The Morbific Hydra Exterminated by the Chemical Hercules
Alchemical emblem from Splendor Solis featuring a three-headed bird inside a glass flask, set against a backdrop of a chaotic battle scene and a celestial chariot.
Plate XIII from Splendor Solis, featuring a peacock in a glass flask (cucurbit) set within an architectural frame, surrounded by scenes of daily life and a celestial chariot.
The Fourth Parable from Splendor Solis, depicting an Ethiopian man emerging from a swamp being greeted by a winged queenly figure.
Mystical allegorical engraving titled 'Von Göttlicher Offenbarung' (Of Divine Revelation) featuring a central human figure, divine symbols, and celestial/terrestrial motifs.
Theosophy Revealed, Volume 5
Portrait of Fridericus Gualdus within an oval frame, with a Latin inscription below on a draped banner.
Communication of an Excellent Chemical Medicine
Plate XVII from Splendor Solis, depicting the alchemical stage of the White Queen within a hermetic flask, set against a backdrop of scholarly and musical activity under the influence of Mercury.
Elaborate alchemical and theosophical title page engraving featuring pillars, a landscape, and divine symbols.
An alchemical emblem depicting a hooded philosopher (Democritus) pointing toward a nude female figure representing Nature, who holds a flaming heart. In the background, a man works with a hammer and anvil near a coastal landscape.
An alchemical engraving depicting a crowned figure inside a glass vessel.
Alchemical emblem depicting Roger Bacon as a monk holding a balance scale, with fire in one pan and water in the other, set against a landscape.
Classical Greek relief depicting an initiate into the Eleusinian Mysteries between Demeter and Persephone.
A complex fan-shaped cosmological diagram representing the 'Musica Mundana' or the harmony of the world, mapping the universe onto musical proportions.
Figure XII from The Book of Lambspring, depicting two figures atop a mountain under the sun and moon.
The Reign of Antichrist, a complex scene depicting the Antichrist preaching to a crowd, influenced by demons, while an angel with a sword appears above.
The Second Key of Basil Valentine, an alchemical woodcut depicting a winged Mercury figure holding two caducei, flanked by the Sun and Moon, with two figures engaged in a duel or symbolic combat.
The Great Mural Quadrant (Quadrans Maximus) at Augsburg, a large-scale astronomical instrument designed by Tycho Brahe.
An alchemical engraving depicting Thomas Aquinas standing beside a smoking mountain, representing the Italian nation in Maier's work.
A technical woodcut illustration of the Arcus Bipartitus, a bipartite arc instrument used by Tycho Brahe for measuring small angular distances between stars.
An engraving depicting two women in an interior setting; one is seated at a dressing table while the other styles her hair. A mirror on the table reflects the seated woman's face, and various cosmetic jars are visible.
Alchemical emblem featuring a crowned king kneeling before a celestial star, a globe with three crowns, and a lighthouse-like tower.
Alchemical emblem featuring three figures around a central furnace (athanor) from which a large tree grows. One figure holds a radiant sun, another holds a flask, and a third seated figure tends to the base of the furnace.
Alchemical emblem featuring two figures engaged in symbolic labor, with a central celestial triangle and various numbered vessels and apparatus.
Complex alchemical emblem featuring a laboratory scene with a king, an alchemist, and various symbolic figures and vessels.
A faint, mirrored ghost image of a portrait of Tycho Brahe, showing him in an architectural frame with heraldic shields.
A detailed woodcut of Tycho Brahe's 'Quadrans Mediocris Orichalcicus Azimuthalis' (Medium Brass Azimuth Quadrant), showing the instrument mounted on a decorative base with serpent motifs and graduated scales.
Alchemical drawing of two female figures representing Sol and Luna flanking a central vessel containing a small figure.
The Rosary of the Philosophers
A complex alchemical emblem featuring a seven-pointed star within a circle, rich with symbolic imagery and Latin text.
The Twelve Keys of Philosophy
Alchemical engraving from Splendor Solis depicting a king on a shore and a figure in the sea under a personified sun.
Portrait of Paracelsus (Philippus Theophrastus von Hohenheim) at age 47.
Perspective view of a star-shaped citadel fortification with a central building and surrounding landscape.
A complex, full-page engraving titled 'Catoptrum Meteorographicum', depicting a cosmological and meteorological system.
The Sixth Key of Basil Valentine from the Musaeum Hermeticum, depicting a chemical wedding presided over by a bishop.
The Fourth Key of Basil Valentine: A skeleton standing atop a draped tomb or altar in a landscape.
A complex diagram of the 'Monochordum Mundi' (Celestial Monochord), illustrating the harmony of the spheres through musical intervals mapped onto the cosmos.
An alchemical emblem depicting three boys playing in a landscape, representing the 'Children's Play' (Ludus Puerorum).
Frontispiece for Robert Fludd's 'De Naturae Simia' featuring an architectural frame and a circular diagram of the arts and sciences.
Alchemical emblem featuring a winged figure, likely Mercury, standing on a globe containing a complex diagram of alchemical principles.
German Chemical Theater, Vol. I
An alchemist holding a glass flask (cucurbit) containing a dark liquid, standing in a landscape with a scroll above him.
A complex allegorical landscape representing the path to eternal wisdom, featuring mountains, alchemical laboratories, and a kneeling figure in prayer.
Alchemical emblem from Splendor Solis showing a three-headed dragon within a crowned glass flask, set against a background of Mars in a chariot and scenes of combat and wrestling.
Complex alchemical allegory with birds emerging from flasks and figures in medieval dress.
Allegorical two-faced figure with wings, standing between two symbolic trees and atop a dragon.
A complex alchemical illustration featuring a two-headed winged figure (Rebis) surrounded by symbolic plants and dragons.
Alchemical allegory featuring a nude woman with a tree growing from her head, standing on a furnace-like structure.
Complex alchemical allegory featuring a central queen, two fountains (Sun and Moon) pouring liquids into baths with figures, and a philosopher figure below.
An alchemical emblem depicting a man and a woman in an embrace inside a large glass vessel, set within a landscape.
An engraving of a king inside an alchemical vessel, from the Splendor Solis.
Engraved frontispiece title page featuring twelve portrait medallions of alchemical authorities from different nations surrounding the central title text.
Alchemical emblem from Splendor Solis showing a child and a dragon inside a crowned flask.
Alchemical emblem featuring a personified celestial body with a human face over a landscape.
An alchemical emblem depicting Saturn as a peg-legged man watering a garden of trees bearing sun and moon faces, while a noble figure watches.
Portrait of Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim) at age 45
The Book of Meteors; Fourth Book of Paramirum on the Matrix
The Bird of Hermes, a large bird with a crowned human head, perched on a swirling globe.
Engraved frontispiece for Robert Fludd's 'Anatomiae Amphitheatrum' featuring a portrait and a complex circular diagram of the microcosm.
The Sun (Sol) bleeding into a vessel containing three black spheres, held by a figure.
The Third Parable from Splendor Solis, depicting an alchemical king or prince holding a scepter and a globe with a dove, standing in a landscape under a radiant sun and star.
An alchemical landscape featuring a rising sun with a human face appearing over a dark, misty horizon, symbolizing the 'Sol Niger' or the dawn of the Great Work.
A complex alchemical allegory featuring a central crowned figure within a glass vessel, surrounded by a landscape of daily activities and a celestial chariot above.
A detailed partial circular engraving of an alchemical laboratory. It shows architectural pillars labeled 'Experientia', a furnace area, various chemical vessels on shelves, and distillation equipment on the floor. The scene is filled with Latin mottos and technical terms.
Hand-colored alchemical emblem of a symbolic human figure.
A Brief Opening of the Three Principles and Worlds in Man
The Sixth Key of Basil Valentine, depicting the alchemical marriage of a King and Queen.
Engraved portrait of Jacob Böhme in his workshop, surrounded by shoemaking tools and books.
The Way to Christ
An alchemical emblem from Splendor Solis depicting a man with a sword holding a severed head next to a dismembered body.
Hand-colored alchemical emblem depicting an armored figure standing in two fountains.
Hand-colored alchemical emblem featuring a winged, crowned female figure and a red-skinned male figure.
Portrait of Heinrich Khunrath at age 42, surrounded by symbols of his scholarship and profession.
An alchemical emblem showing a king enthroned upon a dragon or sea monster within a classical portico, overlooking a detailed cityscape with a bridge and towers.
A large complex engraving featuring a circular astrological diagram and a meteorological scene with a sun, clouds, and geometric rays.
Allegorical scene showing three scholars observing a laborer at an alchemical furnace.
The Twelfth Key of Basil Valentine, depicting an alchemist in a laboratory with symbolic elements.
Intricate engraved frontispiece featuring a border of mythological and alchemical scenes surrounding the title 'THE HERMETIC MUSEUM'.
Title page frontispiece featuring an architectural arch with allegorical figures including putti, a soldier in armor, and a wild man.
Alchemiae Gebri cum Lull et Bacon
Frontispiece for The Book of Lambspring depicting a philosopher-king beside an alchemical furnace.
Intricate Masonic engraving for the Supreme Council 33rd degree, featuring a central chamber filled with symbolic objects.
Ripley reviv'd: or, an exposition upon sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works
A crowned knight in armor standing in a double-basin fountain, holding a sword and shield.
An alchemical emblem featuring a three-headed crowned eagle inside a glass vessel topped with flames.
An alchemical emblem from the Ripley Scroll featuring a radiant sun, a crescent moon, and a Bird of Hermes (pelican) feeding its young with its own blood.
Plate III from Splendor Solis, depicting a knight standing atop a double fountain, holding a sword and a shield with Latin inscriptions.
The Ninth Key of Basil Valentine from the Musaeum Hermeticum, depicting three human figures intertwined above a circle containing three serpents biting their tails.
Alchemical emblem from Splendor Solis showing a crowned glass flask containing a child riding a dragon, surrounded by scenes of daily life and a celestial chariot.
Alchemical allegory showing a bearded man in a cauldron heated by fire, with an attendant using bellows.
An alchemical emblem depicting the marriage of Gabricus and Beya, overseen by a figure representing Arnold of Villanova.
Alchemical woodcut depicting the conjunction of Sol and Luna within a glass vessel.
Alchemical emblem depicting the philosopher Avicenna pointing toward an eagle in flight chained to a toad on the ground.
Alchemical allegory from Splendor Solis showing two scholars and a man on a ladder reaching into a tree of birds.
A two-headed, winged figure known as the Rebis standing in a landscape, holding a circular shield and an egg.
Anatomical engraving of a human skeleton showing the nervous or circulatory system, with alphanumeric labels.
Right half of a circular engraving depicting an alchemist's oratory and laboratory.
Alchemical engraving of the King and Queen from Splendor Solis
An alchemical emblem featuring a personified sun with a human face rising over a landscape with a winding river and barren trees.
Complex alchemical allegory featuring a bird in a glass vessel, a peacock chariot, and various human figures in ceremonial and scholarly settings.
Engraved portrait of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, in an oval frame with heraldic crest and inscriptions.
Sylva Sylvarum (1631 English edition)
Alchemical emblem depicting Maria Prophetissa (Mary the Jewess) gesturing toward a symbolic apparatus on a hill.
Alchemical emblem showing three birds (black, red, and white) inside a crowned glass vessel.
The Fourth Key of Basil Valentine, showing a skeleton standing on a tomb in a landscape.
The fifteenth figure from the Lambspring tract, depicting a winged central figure (the Spirit) uniting a King (the Father) and his Son.
Alchemical emblem depicting a king devouring his son, with an angelic figure looking on.
Hand-colored alchemical illustration showing a man in a heated bath with a bird on his head.
A complex alchemical frontispiece titled 'LA TOYSON D'OR' featuring a central circular emblem surrounded by allegorical figures, symbols, and alchemical vessels.
An alchemical emblem depicting a child and a dragon inside a hermetic flask.
Alchemical emblem from the 'Second Key' of Basil Valentine, featuring a central winged figure of Mercury flanked by two men and celestial symbols.
Alchemical emblem showing a king sweating in a four-poster bed, representing the extraction of the 'true tincture'.
The Sixth Parable from Splendor Solis, depicting a man with a sword holding a severed head over a dismembered body.
Alchemical and astrological diagram featuring a central sun with the text 'MIRABILITAS Naturae', surrounded by planetary symbols, the four elements, and the zodiac signs.
Engraved frontispiece featuring an allegorical female figure representing Alchemy or Medicine, seated beneath a draped curtain. She holds a caduceus (staff with a serpent) and a rooster, with a landscape and tower in the background.
Miracles and Mysteries of Chemistry and Medicine
Circular alchemical emblem featuring a two-headed figure (Rebis) standing on a dragon and a globe.
The First Key of Basil Valentine depicting a King and Queen, a wolf jumping over a crucible, and Saturn with a scythe.
The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged
The Eleventh Key of Basil Valentine, an allegorical alchemical scene featuring two women riding lions.
An alchemical engraving from Michael Maier's 'Subtilis Allegoria', showing a scholar observing a one-legged man watering a garden of trees bearing suns and moons.
An alchemical woodcut depicting an Atlas-like figure supporting a celestial sphere, surrounded by a banner with the VITRIOL acronym.
A tripartite alchemical emblem from the 'Mutus Liber'. The upper register depicts the Sun (Sol) and Moon (Luna) with human countenances appearing in the clouds, with rays of divine or celestial influence descending. The middle register shows a landscape with rows of shallow bowls or cloths placed on the ground to collect dew, a symbolic source of universal spirit in alchemy. The lower register features four figures—a man and three women in 17th-century dress—exchanging or filling jugs with the collected substance.
Mutus Liber (The Silent Book)
A complex alchemical and cosmological diagram representing the hierarchy of the universe, from the Divine Archetype to the elemental world and chaos.
Alchemical emblem for 'Aureum Seculum Redivivum' featuring a central triangle, cross, and circular inscriptions, flanked by four cherub heads.
Alchemical woodcut featuring a winged serpent entwined around two personified celestial faces.
A complex alchemical engraving divided into three horizontal registers. The top register features the Sun and Moon with faces in the corners, emitting rays or dew over a landscape with a church and fortified buildings. The middle register depicts a ram (Aries) and a bull (Taurus) in a field containing seven basins for collecting dew. The bottom register is split into two scenes: on the left, a man and woman pour liquid through a funnel; on the right, a woman and the winged-footed Mercury hold a vessel together.
The 'Azoth of the Philosophers' emblem, a complex alchemical diagram featuring a seven-pointed star superimposed over a human figure, surrounded by planetary and elemental symbols.
Alchemical emblem from the 'Lambspring' series showing two fish swimming in opposite directions in a sea, with a sailing vessel and a coastal city in the background.
Octava Figura: Two large birds, representing Body and Spirit, engaged in a struggle within a wooded landscape.
An alchemical emblem depicting a knight in armor confronting a winged dragon in a forest landscape.
Mirrored show-through of an engraved alchemical frontispiece. It depicts an angel with a trumpet standing on a ladder (Jacob's ladder) that connects the terrestrial landscape to the clouds of heaven. The entire scene is framed by a large oval wreath of botanical elements, featuring a rose at the bottom left and a pomegranate-like fruit at the bottom right.
Alchemical emblem for the Fifth Key of Basil Valentine, featuring a crowned lion, a woman with a flowering plant, and a man with a bellows under a radiant sun.
The First Key of Basil Valentine, an alchemical engraving depicting a King and Queen, a wolf jumping over a crucible, and Saturn as an old man with a scythe.
The Seventh Key of Basil Valentine, an alchemical emblem featuring a figure holding a sword and scales behind a circular diagram labeled 'CHAOS'.
Elaborate engraved frontispiece for Michael Maier's 'Arcana Arcanissima' featuring a pantheon of Egyptian and Greek mythological figures.
Arcana Arcanissima Hieroglyphica Aegyptio-Graeca
An alchemical emblem from the 'Lambspring' series showing a winged dragon biting its own tail (Ouroboros) in a wooded landscape.
Alchemical emblem titled 'Undecima Figura' (Eleventh Figure) from the Lambspring series, showing three figures holding hands: an elderly king (Father), a younger crowned man (Son), and a winged guide (Spirit).
The fourteenth figure from the Lambspring series, depicting a crowned king sweating in a four-poster bed.
The Tenth Key of Basil Valentine, an alchemical emblem featuring a triangle inscribed with Latin text and Hebrew characters surrounding a central circular motif.
Group of Arabian magicians repenting of their sorceries
Alchemical emblem from the Lambspring series showing a wolf and a dog fighting in a landscape.
An allegorical engraving depicting the divine creation, featuring a cloud labeled 'FIAT' from which rays of light emanate into a dark void, with a dove descending in a separate burst of light.
Alchemical emblem titled 'Duodecima Figura' (Twelfth Figure) from the Lambspring series, depicting two figures standing atop a mountain peak.
Plate 4 of the Mutus Liber: An alchemical scene depicting the collection of morning dew. At the top, the Sun (Sol) and Moon (Luna) appear with human faces amidst clouds, with rays (representing dew) descending. In the mid-ground, a landscape features sheep and rectangular frames holding sheets to catch the dew. In the foreground, an alchemist and his 'soror mystica' (mystical sister) wring out a dew-soaked cloth into a large basin.
The Sabbatic Goat, or Baphomet of Mendes, a winged, goat-headed figure with human features, sitting cross-legged on a globe.
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A large azimuthal semicircle (Semicirculus Magnus Azimuthalis) astronomical instrument designed by Tycho Brahe.
Frontispiece engraving depicting Giambattista Della Porta in his study, surrounded by scientific and alchemical instruments.
A complex alchemical allegory featuring a two-headed figure (Rebis) with one green and one blue wing, standing atop a dragon-like creature.
A large equatorial armillary sphere (Armillae Aequatoriae Maximae) installed in a stone observatory setting with steps and support pillars.
A detailed technical diagram of Tycho Brahe's steel sextant (Sextans Chalybeus), used for measuring angular distances between celestial bodies.
The Twelfth Key of Basilius Valentinus, an alchemical engraving showing an adept in a laboratory with a lion devouring a serpent.
A detailed technical woodcut of the Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus (Great Steel Quadrant) within a steel square, used for measuring azimuthal coordinates.
A detailed woodcut of Tycho Brahe's 'Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus', a large astronomical sextant used for measuring angular distances between celestial bodies.
A technical woodcut illustration of Tycho Brahe's astronomical quadrant, mounted on a wall and a pillar within an observatory setting.
Engraved title illustration for the 'Tripus Aureus' (Golden Tripod), depicting an alchemical laboratory with three figures and a laborer.
A scholar in a vaulted room filled with optical instruments, mirrors, and telescopes, illustrating the study of catoptrics.
An allegorical engraving for Book XX of Magia Naturalis, showing a practitioner at a table while divine hands from the clouds pour out a bag of scientific and alchemical instruments.
A decorative oval seal for the Camden Society containing a portrait of William Camden. The oval is inscribed with 'THE CAMDEN SOCIETY FOUNDED MDCCCXXXVIII' and flanked by scrolls with his birth and death dates: 'N. 2. Maii 1551' and 'Ob. 9 Nov. 1623'.
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An intricate alchemical illustration featuring a central tree with various figures and symbols.
An alchemical emblem featuring a dragon in a vessel, human heads, and a symbolic crown.
An alchemical emblem from the Musaeum Hermeticum illustrating the Hermetic principle 'As above, so below.' It features three seated figures holding geometric symbols (triangle, hexagram) above a cave containing seven figures, likely representing the planetary metals or stages of the Great Work, gathered around a central well.
A complex alchemical and cosmological diagram titled 'Mundus Archetypus' and 'Mundus Intelligentiarum', featuring the Holy Trinity at the center surrounded by the nine celestial hierarchies of angels.
Alchemical emblem featuring a stag and a unicorn in a wooded landscape, representing the union of soul and spirit.
A hand-colored engraving of the 'Theosophical Man,' illustrating the spiritual anatomy and the three principles within a human figure.
Complex allegorical engraving depicting a winged figure holding a celestial wheel with planetary symbols, set within a landscape of stars, animals, and sea.
The Hieroglyphic Monad symbol within an ornate frame, surrounded by elemental and celestial references.
The Chariot of Hermes, the seventh key of the Tarot, depicting a crowned figure in a chariot drawn by two sphinxes.
A complex, hand-colored alchemical and cabalistic diagram featuring a celestial hierarchy and planetary symbols.
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A complex alchemical emblem featuring the V.I.T.R.I.O.L. acronym and various symbolic elements within a circular frame.
A complex alchemical emblem illustrating the principle of 'as above, so below' with celestial and terrestrial symbols.
The Eighth Key of Basil Valentine from the Musaeum Hermeticum, depicting a scene of resurrection and putrefaction.
A detailed laboratory scene showing three figures engaged in chemical or alchemical processes, surrounded by various apparatus like alembics, retorts, and furnaces.
Portrait of Friedrich Roth-Scholtz in a library
Detailed alchemical landscape featuring a large rock face inscribed with the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, with a group of figures observing it from below.
Engraving of Geoffrey Chaucer's tomb in Westminster Abbey, featuring a portrait of the poet and a Latin inscription.
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Portrait of Emmanuel Swedenborg
Detailed engraving of a military formation with various units labeled A through I, showing infantry, cavalry, and artillery.
Alchemical emblem featuring two figures flanking a central furnace and distillation apparatus, with various symbols including Mercury and sulfur.
Alchemical emblem featuring a celestial wheel of colors and planetary symbols, an armored knight, and a seated philosopher by an athanor.
Alchemical emblem from Speculum Veritatis showing a laboratory scene with three globes on a furnace, a figure holding a caduceus, and a smith at an anvil.
Alchemical emblem featuring a central tree with a serpent coiled around the trunk, flanked by three figures: a soldier, a crowned king, and a man holding an alchemical symbol.
Alchemical emblem featuring a knight in armor holding a globus cruciger and a floral branch, flanked by two figures in robes, with a celestial donkey and a fallen figure in the background.
An alchemical laboratory scene featuring a practitioner at a workbench with various vessels, set against a landscape with a bridge and buildings.
A large military formation of infantry and cavalry arranged in a crescent shape.
A detailed engraving showing various formations of a Spanish army, including infantry with pikes and cavalry, moving across a landscape.
Alchemical emblem of a lion devouring the sun
Alchemical vessel containing a human figure with a bird emerging from the top, surrounded by scrolls.
Circular emblem depicting the Egyptian deity Horus with symbolic attributes.
Alchemical emblem showing a winged dragon biting its tail in a forest setting.
A triangular engraving titled 'Mathematica Hieroglyph' depicting three figures in Egyptian-style dress under a canopy, surrounded by symbolic letters and icons.
Alchemical woodcut depicting a male and female figure inside a glass vessel from which three flowers grow.
A hand-colored illustration depicting a green-scaled dragon forming an ouroboros, biting its own tail, in a landscape with classical ruins, a river, and trees. The scene is set under a motto 'EMBLEMA XIV. De secretis Natura. Hic est Draco caudam suam devorans.' (Emblem 14. Of the secrets of Nature. Here is the Dragon devouring its own tail).
A complex circular diagram of the ancient Egyptian zodiac, featuring twelve signs with associated deities and symbols, centered on a winged sun disk.
A circular astrological diagram featuring a central human figure, known as the 'Zodiac Man', surrounded by the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Engraving illustrating optical perspective with a man, a large bust on a table, and a city view.
A circular emblem within the larger diagram, featuring an ouroboros encircling a central square with sun and moon symbols, flanked by four seated figures.
Detailed engraving of an imperial army on the march, showing cavalry, infantry, artillery, and supply wagons in a landscape.
An engraving depicting a mechanical altar or alchemical apparatus flanked by two robed figures, likely representing Egyptian priests or deities.
An alchemical emblem depicting two lions in a wooded landscape, representing the union of spirit and soul.
A complex Masonic emblem featuring a double-headed eagle, a crucifix with a rose, a skeleton, and various other symbolic elements within an architectural frame.
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An engraving of a scholar in a study, reading a book at a table.
A circular emblem featuring a standing figure of Horus holding a staff, accompanied by a triangle and a globe.
An allegorical figure representing the Trinity or an alchemical principle, crowned and holding an orb and a flowering branch, standing between two large wings on a symbolic base.
Alchemical allegory featuring a crowned mermaid, a nude woman, and a bearded man standing by a furnace with three green retorts.
Complex alchemical emblem featuring a central double-headed eagle and dragon surrounded by personified celestial bodies and planetary spheres.
Two-headed alchemical figure (Rebis) representing the union of King and Queen.
Circular alchemical emblem depicting Mercury, the Moon, and Sulphur as personified figures.
A circular alchemical emblem depicting a lion biting the sun, an old man holding a vessel, and other figures in a landscape.
A radiant sun with a human face, positioned above a crowned figure and a bird-like creature.
Alchemical emblem of the 'sphere of Heaven' featuring a three-headed deity representing the Trinity.
Circular woodcut depicting an alchemical allegory with a king on a throne, kneeling figures, a field of barley, and an old man at a furnace.
Two anatomical diagrams of the human brain dissection within human heads, labeled Fig. VII and Fig. VIII.
Anatomical engraving of a male torso with the chest cavity opened to show the mediastinum and lungs.
Woodcut emblem featuring a knight on horseback with a motto banner.
Anatomical engraving of the human nervous system and spinal column.
Engraved portrait of Nicolas Flamel, depicted kneeling in prayer.
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Allegorical scene of children playing (ludus puerorum) in an interior setting.
An allegorical engraving featuring a winged female figure and a smaller figure in a landscape, enclosed in a decorative border with animals and plants.
Woodcut illustration of a resurrected figure rising from a tomb, representing alchemical rebirth.
Woodcut depicting a Christ-like figure rising from a tomb, symbolizing alchemical resurrection.
A seven-tiered stepped pedestal topped with a figure of Saturn holding a scythe and a child.
A complex circular allegorical engraving representing divine wisdom as the source of all creation, surrounded by a border of billowing clouds.
The First Key of Basil Valentine, depicting a king, queen, Saturn, and a wolf.
The Seventh Key from Basil Valentine's 'The Twelve Keys,' an alchemical emblem featuring a central circular diagram with a triangle labeled 'AQVA' (water) surrounded by the four seasons.
An allegorical engraving for the Eleventh Key of Basil Valentine, featuring two women riding lions and holding hearts with celestial symbols.
Alchemical emblem showing a man tending a fire containing a salamander.
Alchemical emblem featuring a central glass vessel with a flowering plant, flanked by a King and Queen.
The Ninth Key of Basil Valentine, an alchemical emblem featuring symbolic figures and intertwined serpents.
An allegorical landscape from the Splendor Solis series featuring a personified sun rising over a town and a traveler.
Alchemical emblem depicting a naked male figure inside a large, dark, teardrop-shaped vessel labeled 'Oleum Philof', set within a landscape with two trees.
Two women washing clothes in a landscape, an alchemical allegory for purification from the Splendor Solis series.
An alchemical landscape featuring a personified sun with a human face rising over a mountainous terrain, with a prominent tree in the foreground.
A three-headed crowned bird inside a crowned alchemical flask over a fire.
An alchemist or philosopher holding a glass flask and a large, blank scroll, set against a landscape background.
Allegorical alchemical emblem featuring a warrior with a sword standing on a fountain.
Woodcut depicting two men engaged in an alchemical process, one lifting a large conical vessel over a base.
Allegorical scene of women washing and bleaching laundry in a landscape, representing alchemical purification.
Alchemical landscape with a personified sun rising over a walled city.
Allegorical engraving of a black sun over a landscape within a decorative floral border.
Allegorical scene of women washing and drying laundry in a landscape, representing alchemical purification.
Complex alchemical emblem featuring a crowned figure in a vessel, a celestial chariot, and a scholarly study.
A complex allegorical or mythological scene within a decorative floral border, featuring figures and classical architecture.
Allegorical alchemical scene from the Splendor Solis series showing miners on a rocky hill.
An allegorical engraving depicting a wide variety of animals across three realms: air, water, and land.
The Philosophical Basilica (Basilica Philosophica)
Hand-colored alchemical emblem depicting a king and a figure in water under a personified sun.
Hand-colored alchemical emblem showing two scholars in discussion while a youth climbs a ladder to reach birds in a tree.
Hand-colored woodcut emblem featuring a coat of arms with a sun face, a crowned helmet, and a larger sun face above, flanked by scrolls.
A crowned Melusine or double-tailed mermaid rising from the water.
Circular woodcut emblem showing a crowd of figures with sun and moon symbols above.
Circular alchemical emblem depicting three figures and planetary symbols.
Circular woodcut emblem depicting an enthroned figure surrounded by kneeling figures.
An engraving depicting a man performing a hydrostatic experiment with a balance scale and a large tub of water in a laboratory setting.
A complex woodcut illustration depicting a landscape with human activity, architecture, and symbolic elements.
A detailed engraving of three blacksmiths working in a forge, illustrating metallurgical processes.
A detailed engraving of an early modern chemical laboratory featuring various furnaces, distillation apparatus, and two figures at work.
A detailed scene of pyrotechnicians launching fireworks from mortars and barrels into a night sky.
An engraving depicting an artisan or alchemist working at a large brick furnace, using tongs to handle a glowing crucible.
The Third Key of Basilius Valentinus, depicting a dragon and a fox devouring a rooster.
The Fourth Key of Basilius Valentinus, depicting a skeleton standing upon a tomb or pedestal, with a church or castle in the background and a candle or torch in the foreground.
The Eighth Key of Basilius Valentinus, depicting the alchemical process of putrefaction and resurrection through the metaphor of sowing seed and the decay of the body.
A comprehensive table of Chymicall & Philosophicall Characters, displaying alchemical and astrological symbols with their corresponding meanings.
Portrait of Count Cagliostro
A technical woodcut illustration of Tycho Brahe's parallactic instrument (triquetrum), used for measuring the zenith distance of celestial bodies.
A complex cosmological diagram illustrating the relationship between the macrocosm and microcosm, featuring a central human figure surrounded by symbolic circles and German text.
Mystical diagram of Solomon's Temple with symbolic figures and architectural plan.
Hand-drawn alchemical emblem featuring a crowned head within a vessel, flanked by scrolls and topped by a rose and stars.
Alchemical emblem featuring a vessel with a human face, topped by a rose and flanked by inscribed banners.
Title page of Atalanta Fugiens, featuring scenes from the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes, as well as alchemical imagery.
An alchemical emblem depicting two nude figures lying on a pyre, surrounded by flames, with a moon in the background.
Facsimile of a wood-engraving titled 'OLD-MAID WITCH' attributed to Holbein, showing a woman in a forest under a celestial sphere.
A hybrid creature with a lion-like head, human torso, and bird-like legs, standing on a serpent.
The Goal of the Wise (Ghayat al-Hakim)
Circular emblem depicting a solar deity, likely Apollo, holding a lyre and a caduceus, representing the 'Divina Metamorphosis' (Divine Metamorphosis).
An alchemical engraving depicting John Cremer, Abbot of Westminster, standing beside a mountain containing a furnace and alchemical symbols.
A collection of Gnostic gems and talismans featuring the deity Abraxas.
Engraving of an ibis-headed Egyptian deity, likely Thoth or Hermes Trismegistus, seated on a throne.
A vertical, anthropomorphic figure representing a 'Triforme Numen' (Triform Deity), containing eight distinct symbolic compartments or 'Octo Classes Mundi' (Eight Classes of the World).
A woodcut illustration of the Egyptian deity Ammon with a ram's head, holding a lituus and a flagellum.
A circular alchemical emblem depicting an alchemist at a furnace and symbolic lions.
An engraving of an Egyptian priest, identified as a priest of Momphtha, wearing a lion skin and holding ritual objects, presented as if carved into stone.
Circular alchemical emblem depicting a figure standing next to a large vessel containing a small figure, while holding another small figure, set against a rocky landscape.
Three hybrid figures with human heads and winged bodies, representing allegorical or mythological entities.
Circular alchemical emblem depicting 'Conjunction' with a sage, a furnace, and celestial bodies.
Circular alchemical emblem showing an alchemist with a large vessel, a small figure pouring liquid, a dragon, and a personified cloud.
A series of four panels depicting pseudo-Egyptian hieroglyphic figures, including a winged scarab-human hybrid, cynocephali, and a figure supporting a sphinx.
A radiant sun with black and gold rays, enclosing three linked circles (white, yellow, black), positioned above a crescent moon.
A bearded pilgrim or alchemist carrying a staff and a book, walking toward the right.
A circular woodcut depicting a central seated figure surrounded by various allegorical figures, including Saturn with a scythe.
The Red Lion and the Green Lion flanking a central alchemical vessel.
Circular alchemical emblem showing an old man next to a vessel containing a dragon devouring serpents, with an ouroboros above.
Two 'Hieroglyphic Hands' (Manus Hieroglyphica) marked N and O, covered in symbolic figures including a face with an ankh, a frog, a snake, a lizard, and a turtle.
Alchemical emblem depicting a man tending a fire where a salamander resides, representing the tenth figure of the Lambspring series.
Circular woodcut depicting personified planets standing on a black rock.
The Third Key of Basil Valentine, depicting a dragon in the foreground and a fox attacking a rooster in the background.
Alchemical emblem from the Lambspring series depicting two birds in a tree and a snail on the ground.
The Fifth Key of Basil Valentine, an alchemical emblem depicting a crowned lion, a woman holding a flowering vessel, and a man with a bellows and flaming head.
Alchemical emblem featuring a cross with a sun at the top and a crescent moon at the base, containing Latin inscriptions.
Engraving of Atlas supporting an armillary sphere
The Sceptical Chymist (1661 First Edition)
Plate VI: The Other Parable, depicting a man on a ladder gathering golden fruit from a tree while two philosophers observe below.
An alchemical emblem from Khunrath's 'Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae' depicting an owl wearing spectacles, flanked by burning candles, perched above a landscape. It signifies the blindness of those who seek wisdom without the proper light or insight.
Complex circular alchemical diagram with dense Latin text and symbolic imagery.
The Tenth Key of Basil Valentine, featuring a geometric emblem with a triangle inscribed in a square, containing a central circle with Hebrew text and planetary symbols.
An engraving depicting two wheels, one shown frontally and another held by a man, both emitting sparks or energy.
The First Parable from Splendor Solis, featuring a central circular landscape with figures mining a mountain and a lower rectangular panel depicting Esther and Ahasuerus.
Oval portrait of Girolamo Cardano (Hieronimus Cardanus) in profile, wearing a scholar's cap and gown, surrounded by a Greek motto.
A series of panels depicting celestial figures and angels associated with divine names and planetary spheres.
Alchemical emblem featuring a dragon within a triangle, nested in a circle and square, with three serpents.
Alchemical emblem with central triangle, cross, and Latin inscriptions, framed by cherub heads.
Alchemical emblem from Splendor Solis showing three birds in a crowned flask.
Alchemical emblem showing a wolf and a dog in a landscape, representing the union of opposites.
An alchemical illustration showing a large dragon in the foreground and a winged creature in the background within a mountainous landscape featuring a castle.
Alchemical emblem showing a crowned figure inside a glass vessel labeled 'Elixir rubeum', with a plant growing from the top.
Alchemical emblem from The Book of Lambspring depicting two fish swimming in a sea.
Alchemical emblem featuring a central pillar or cross topped by a radiant sun with a face and resting on a crescent moon, with Latin inscriptions.
Three oval portraits of the Fox sisters: Leah, Kate, and Margaretta.
An allegorical woodcut depicting a crowned female figure standing over a large vessel, flanked by lions pouring liquid into it.
An alchemical emblem depicting a two-headed hermaphrodite (Rebis) holding a Y-shaped symbol, standing before a bishop or high cleric who points toward them.
An alchemical emblem depicting a priest celebrating Mass at an altar, while a vision of a woman nursing an infant appears within a radiant circle to the left.
Portrait of Charles Foster with a faint spirit figure.
An alchemist standing next to a large, multi-tiered furnace (athanor) holding a large glass vessel.
An alchemist standing next to a large brick athanor furnace.
A man using a cross-staff (Jacob's staff) to measure the distance or height of a row of trees.
Title page engraving for Lambsprinck's 'De Lapide Philosophico' depicting a noble figure standing beside a domed structure.
A circular cosmological diagram showing a dark center surrounded by clouds and radiating beams of light.
A large circular engraving depicting a cosmological scene with a dark central vortex surrounded by concentric layers of clouds and radiating beams of light.
The Philosophic Seal of the Society of the Rosicrucians, depicting a human figure within geometric shapes and alchemical symbols.
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A detailed engraving of a formal Baroque garden with fountains, topiary, and a gentleman.
An allegorical scene featuring three youthful figures in a landscape, hand-colored.
An alchemical landscape featuring a traveler on a path towards a city, with a personified sun rising behind mountains.
An alchemical emblem depicting a king in red robes inside a glass vessel.
A central crowned lion-headed serpent surrounded by rows of magical characters and zodiacal symbols.
Alchemical emblem depicting the creation of the world, featuring celestial spheres, zodiac signs, and alchemical figures.
Alchemical emblem showing a crowned woman inside a flaming vessel.
Alchemical woodcut depicting a celestial sphere with winged figures, surrounded by planetary stars, the sun, and the moon.
Alchemical or philosophical emblem featuring a central geometric diagram with figures of Justice and a swordsman.
A complex alchemical emblem divided into two horizontal registers. The upper register features a radiant sun with a human face at the top. Below it, a winged angel and a figure draped in animal skin hold a central oval medallion depicting Mercury (Hermes) with a caduceus, standing upon a crescent moon and a star. The scene is surrounded by clouds and birds. The lower register depicts a brick tower featuring a circular emblem with a droplet and a downward-pointing triangle. On either side of the tower, under draped curtains, two figures are shown kneeling: a woman on the left gesturing toward the heavens and a figure on the right in a prayerful posture.
An Egyptian-style scene featuring three figures, hieroglyphic inscriptions, and a winged sun disk at the top. One figure is seated on a throne, flanked by two standing figures. Below the main scene are three registers of hieroglyphs.
Oedipus Aegyptiacus Tomus II
Alchemical emblem from the Musaeum Hermeticum depicting two lions in a wooded landscape, representing the union of Spirit and Soul.
A series of nine circular alchemical and cosmological emblems arranged in two rows, illustrating the stages of creation and the Great Work.
Alchemical emblem from the 'Practica, de Lapide Sapientum' featuring a circular vessel containing a triangle, a central dragon, and three crowned serpents.
An alchemical emblem titled 'Secunda Figura' and 'Putrefactio', depicting a knight in classical armor battling a winged dragon in a wooded landscape.
A physician in scholarly attire attending to a patient in bed, with medical vessels on a nearby table.
An intricate alchemical emblem featuring a central tiered furnace or Athanor, flanked by figures and symbolic vessels connected by an arch.
An emblem depicting a king receiving a cup of water from a servant, while a doctor attends to him in the background. The scene illustrates the healing power of water.
An allegorical emblem depicting a vulture perched on a mountain peak and a raven flying below, with a scroll bearing an alchemical motto, set against a detailed landscape.
Emblem depicting the story of Oedipus and the Sphinx, with Oedipus standing prominently in the foreground, the Sphinx in the background, and other figures representing elements of the myth.
An emblem depicting a wolf devouring a king, with a figure tending a fire where the wolf is being burned. A city is in the background.
An alchemical emblem showing a man pointing with a rod at a geometric figure containing a circle, square, and triangle, within which are two nude figures.
An emblem depicting a knight in armor confronting a nude woman near a fire, with a castle in the background.
Emblem depicting a crowned, bearded man (Jupiter) standing in water, holding an eagle in each hand, with a landscape in the background.
Emblem depicting the murder of Osiris by Typhon, with Isis collecting his scattered limbs.
Illustration depicting the death of Adonis, with Venus rushing to his side as he is attacked by a boar.
Emblem depicting the union of two waters, one hot and one cold, to create a single, pure water. Two putti stand on either side of the scene, with figures mixing the waters in the center.
An emblem depicting a male figure with a sun-like head and a female figure with a sun-like head, standing in a landscape with chickens and a boat in the background.
An alchemical emblem depicting two figures of Mercury flanking a central figure tending a fire in a furnace.
An emblem depicting the alchemical union of Mercury and Venus, with a two-headed figure standing on mountains and a cupid figure.
An emblem depicting a man with a sword about to strike an egg, with a fire in the background and a tunnel leading to a distant building.
An allegorical scene with a woman holding flowers and a basket, and an old man with a lantern and walking stick, set in a landscape under a moonlit sky.
An emblem depicting Ceres holding Triptolemus and Thetis dipping Achilles in fire.
An emblem depicting the purification of Latona, with two figures washing her and two children representing the sun and moon. Books are scattered at their feet.
An emblem depicting the philosophical infant Orion being recognized by three fathers: Phoebus, Vulcanus, and Hermes, with a landscape background.
